MSO10674 - Oareford Farmhouse, Oare (Building)
Summary
Please read the Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record caveat document.
Type and Period (1)
Protected Status
Full Description
Farmhouse. Late C18-early C19, minor alterations late C20. Roughcast over rubble, hipped slate roof, slight bell-cast on facade with overhanging eaves and decorative paired brackets, tall roughcast stacks rising from eaves left and right. Plan: double pile with flanking single storey wings. Gothick fenestration. Two storeys, 3 bays, pointed arched window openings, many paned casements with divided tracery heads gabled central porch, square headed opening; flanked by single storey wings with blind semi-circular headed niches, parapet swept down on right masking lean-to roof, left wall raised to 2 storeys, unlit on facade. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 265454. First Listed on 22/05/1969. [2] Double pile plan. Stone, Render, roughcast and pebbledash walls. Hipped roof [3] The farmhouse was visited in January 1997. The house was described as an early 19th Century Gothick symmetrical building. [4] The building was visited in September 2012 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [5]
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SSO672 Index: 2/1/1986. Thirty-fifth List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, District of West Somerset (Somerset)/Exmoor National Park.
- <2> SSO2013 Unassigned: Webster CJ, Historic Environment Record. 2005. Staff Comments, Somerset County Council.
- <3> SSO1 Unpublished document: Somerset County Council. Various. Somerset HER parish files - Exmoor records.
- <4> SEM6996 Report: Schofield, J.. 1997. Exmoor Farmsteads: An evaluation of old steadings within Exmoor National Park. Farm reference 90.
- <5> SEM8060 Report: Lawrence, G.. 2014. Exmoor National Park: Rapid condition survey of listed buildings 2012-13.
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Other Statuses/References
- 2012-3 Building At Risk Score (6): 1076/2/41
- Exmoor Farmsteads Survey 1996-1997 (2): 90
- Local List Status (Unassessed)
- National Park: Exmoor National Park
- Somerset SMR PRN: 31165
Location
Grid reference | Centred SS 8126 4640 (20m by 13m) |
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Map sheet | SS84NW |
Civil Parish | OARE, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET |
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Record last edited
Jan 26 2021 4:24PM
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